D. Craig Brater, MD Dean & Walter J. Daly Professor IU School of Medicine Vice President with Responsibility for Life Sciences Indiana University Contact via Iona Sewell Phone: 317-274-8416 Email: imsewell@iupui.edu

D. Craig Brater became dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine July 1, 2000. He was appointed Vice President with responsibility for Life Sciences in February 2006.

As dean, Dr. Brater administers the School of Medicine, which is located on nine campuses. The school's regional centers for medical education include more than 1,000 faculty and more than 2,200 physicians who serve as volunteer faculty.

In addition, the dean plays an integral leadership position in the school's partnerships with Wishard Health Services, Roudebush VA Medical Center, LaRue Carter Hospital and Clarian Health, which includes Riley, IU and Methodist hospitals.

Dr. Brater is a native of Oak Ridge, Tenn. He attended undergraduate and medical school at Duke University, completed his internship at Duke, and his residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), followed by a fellowship in clinical pharmacology. There he developed a research and clinical interest in diuretics that continues today. After a year as a junior faculty member at UCSF, Dr. Brater spent nine years on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Brater joined the faculty at the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986, where he began the Division of Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine. Four years later he was selected to chair the Department of Medicine, the largest department in the School. In 2000, Dr. Brater was selected to be the ninth dean of the IU School of Medicine. As dean, Dr. Brater is responsible for 26 academic departments, a full-time faculty of more than 1,000 members, and nearly 2,500 medical students, residents and doctoral candidates on nine campuses throughout the state of Indiana.

Dr. Brater has published more than 100 research articles and 50 books or book chapters. These publications, for the most part, concern diuretics or the effects of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) on renal function.

He has been awarded memberships in the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He has been or is currently president of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Association of Professors of Medicine, the Central Society for Clinical Research, and the United States Pharmacopoeia. He is a member of the board and the executive committee of BioCrossroads, an Indiana consortium of business, industry, and academic organizations dedicated to economic development through advancements in the life sciences. He also serves on the boards of directors of Clarian Health Partners and the Riley Children's Foundation. In 2000, his alma mater awarded him the Duke Medical Alumni Award in recognition of his contributions to academic medicine.

Dr. Brater and his wife Stephanie have one daughter Aimee, who lives in Florida. The Braters are actively involved in the Indiana University-Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences exchange program in Kenya, participating in the program four times during the past 10 years. Through this program, they met their "Kenyan son" Michael, who is now an undergraduate student at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.